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by Assem Bazzi
published June 2026
perfect bound trade paperback
9 x 6 inches, 67 pages
ISBN 978-1-942723-21-9
Endless Night is a poetry book about how the world ends and then resumes. It starts in an uncomfortable bed, wakes up in empty streets, prays for an endless night, witnesses the apocalypse, yearns for a morning after the unbearable, then finally dives back onto a pillow.
Note: Although a release date was originally planned for later this year, disruptions caused by the war have prompted us to forego the press’s usual pre-order schedule and make the book immediately available. If you are in Lebanon, while best efforts will be made to fulfill orders, distribution delays under the current ruinous circumstances may be inevitable.
Praise for ENDLESS NIGHT
“This is a document about dislocation, disembodiment and damnation. The poems abandon performative ‘resilience’ and move inwards to embrace the murky experience of mundane, impure, existence. Assem is not even interested in the Trauma Olympics of survivalist epics and the trumpeters of hope, nor the ‘poetic propagandas’ of grandeur, selective memories forged by tears and gunpowder. The empty-eyed, jaded poet/witness whispers a different song. This is a poetics of death (damnation?) in the face of those who tango on our graves and convince us that our accidental martyrdom has meaning. This is less about embracing defeat so much as choosing not to partake in the theatrics of it all.
Endless Night is a nuanced exclamation of humanity, by refusing to be enchanted by either life or death. Just recognizing that we are all fucked. It takes a different kind of courage to embrace Damnation without yielding to it.
Those who have walked in the darkness, who know the stench of ordinary death reeking from the concrete, the witnesses of hollow promises and lurking dooms, they know that the night has been, still is, and will remain. They are too familiar with the Night to be shook by it.”
—Nour M.J. Hodeib, founder of el-Yafta poetry circle
“Somewhere between Beirut and New York, a poet wanders through the streets, searching for the end of an apocalypse.
Endless Night carries the reader through a single, unbroken night where the inner and outer worlds collide. In its span, a life fractures and multiplies; from the quiet ritual of morning coffee to the brutal immediacy of war, to the hushed refuge of a library. Each moment is rendered with clarity and urgency, tracing the shifting contours of what it means to endure, to remember, and to begin again.
Bazzi moves seamlessly between the pulse of spoken word and the discipline of classical poetics, creating a voice that is both immediate and enduring, one that lingers long after the final page.”
—C.J. Raffoul, Chief Editor at Astarte Editing
by Assem Bazzi
published June 2026
perfect bound trade paperback
9 x 6 inches, 67 pages
ISBN 978-1-942723-21-9
Endless Night is a poetry book about how the world ends and then resumes. It starts in an uncomfortable bed, wakes up in empty streets, prays for an endless night, witnesses the apocalypse, yearns for a morning after the unbearable, then finally dives back onto a pillow.
Note: Although a release date was originally planned for later this year, disruptions caused by the war have prompted us to forego the press’s usual pre-order schedule and make the book immediately available. If you are in Lebanon, while best efforts will be made to fulfill orders, distribution delays under the current ruinous circumstances may be inevitable.
Praise for ENDLESS NIGHT
“This is a document about dislocation, disembodiment and damnation. The poems abandon performative ‘resilience’ and move inwards to embrace the murky experience of mundane, impure, existence. Assem is not even interested in the Trauma Olympics of survivalist epics and the trumpeters of hope, nor the ‘poetic propagandas’ of grandeur, selective memories forged by tears and gunpowder. The empty-eyed, jaded poet/witness whispers a different song. This is a poetics of death (damnation?) in the face of those who tango on our graves and convince us that our accidental martyrdom has meaning. This is less about embracing defeat so much as choosing not to partake in the theatrics of it all.
Endless Night is a nuanced exclamation of humanity, by refusing to be enchanted by either life or death. Just recognizing that we are all fucked. It takes a different kind of courage to embrace Damnation without yielding to it.
Those who have walked in the darkness, who know the stench of ordinary death reeking from the concrete, the witnesses of hollow promises and lurking dooms, they know that the night has been, still is, and will remain. They are too familiar with the Night to be shook by it.”
—Nour M.J. Hodeib, founder of el-Yafta poetry circle
“Somewhere between Beirut and New York, a poet wanders through the streets, searching for the end of an apocalypse.
Endless Night carries the reader through a single, unbroken night where the inner and outer worlds collide. In its span, a life fractures and multiplies; from the quiet ritual of morning coffee to the brutal immediacy of war, to the hushed refuge of a library. Each moment is rendered with clarity and urgency, tracing the shifting contours of what it means to endure, to remember, and to begin again.
Bazzi moves seamlessly between the pulse of spoken word and the discipline of classical poetics, creating a voice that is both immediate and enduring, one that lingers long after the final page.”
—C.J. Raffoul, Chief Editor at Astarte Editing